Bin.



No. 803,184. PATENTED OCT. 31, 1905. J. MINGHIN.

ggg v@ JOHN MlNOHlN, OF GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND.

BIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1905.

Application filed October 24, 1904:. Serial No. 229,797.

that they may be placed one upon anothery and still permit the openingof the lid through -which such goods are to be removed without having toin any way displace any of such superposed bins, or in place ofemploying superposed bins the particular construction will permit ofshelves to receive other goods being placed immediately above same, ifde sired, without impeding the opening of such bins.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view illustratingtwo sets or nests of superposed bins constructed according to myinvention placed side by side and having ordinary boxes placed on thetop of the uppermost bin (but which might be replaced by one or moreshelves placed over same) without impeding the opening of the latter. anest of three superposed bins.

Each bin is in the form of a box A, constructed of sheet metal, wood, orother suitable material and provided in its upper part with a frontextension B of greater depth from back to front than the lower part ofsaid box. The fronty Wall of this extension is preferably inclinedand'forms in connection with the end walls a kind of chute for the bin.The bin is provided with a flat top D, which corresponds substantiallyin width with the width of the lower portion of the bin, and to thefront edge of such fixed cover the movable lid E,serving to open andclose the orifice F in the chute formed by the extension above referredto, is hinged and through which the goods to be stocked in such bin areto be introduced and withdrawn as required. The lower portion of vbody Aof Fig. 2 represents anend elevation of the bin (which, as above stated,is of less depth from back to front than the upper portion thereof) isof a height slightly greater than the length of the hinged lid or coverE for closing the opening F in the extended top B, so that when one binis placed upon the other the cover of the lower one can, as shown at H,be turned back and rest against the front of the reduced lower portionof the body A of the bin next above same, and as such lid is hinged tothe fixed top of the bin at a point slightly in advance of the verticalplane occupied by the front face of the reduced portion of the bodythereof this will permit of the lid falling slightly back behind thehinge, and thus insure the lid remaining in its open position until isis turned down again.

It will be readily understood that a single bin or a nest of two or moresuperposed bins of the construction described might, as shown in thedrawings, be employed with one or more ordinary boxes or shelves G of awidth approximating, but not exceeding,that of the depth of the bottomof the body of the bin from back to front arranged over same and at aheight from the top of the uppermost bin less than that of the hingedlid or cover thereof without interfering with the opening or closing ofthe top bin.

What l claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A bin for containing goods required to be readily available for removalin fractional portions or quantities, comprising a body whereof thelower part is of less depth from back to front than the upper part, theupper part having an open chute-like front extension and a lid hinged atits inner edge slightly in front of the vertical plane of the front ofsaid lower part and swinging outward to close said chute-like frontextension, the height of said lower'part being greater than the lengthof said lid from the inner to the outer edge thereof.

ln testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN MINOHIN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM MINGHIN, THoMAs SEPTIMUS Howns.

